This animation shows a disk of red and yellow gas around a supermassive
black hole. As the view pulls back, the formation of stars in the outer
regions of the disk is seen. These massive stars form when the gas
becomes unstable, despite the black hole's enormous gravitational
influence, and collapses inwards.
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This sequence of artist's renderings shows the scenario ruled out by the
latest Chandra results. In this model, a cluster with both low (red) and
high (blue) mass stars is drawn toward the black hole. Eventually, the
strong gravitational forces would rip the cluster apart, sending its
constituent stars into orbit around the black hole.
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